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Well this contains retro thoughts and retrograde fears. Other family are arriving at Geneva at midnight and will need to be picked up. So yesterday for our DH fun we head to Leysin, halfway to Geneve. Gorgeous drive up through unfeasibly green meadows and scattered ancient chalets. Leysin is a...

Contains No artificial sweeteners No additives No irony No retro BIG thunderstorms this morning so fiddled around having coffee. Then drive to St Luc (Val D’Anniviers) to the dustiest trails in the Valais. But the rain had really damped it down, which was good. Funicular up and some good...

Attention - pas de materiel retro OK - woke up dead tired from DH battering. DH basically is: Get lift Climb into giant tumble drier for 10 mins Stop Repeat Knackering. After mild recovery through much coffee we head over to Vercorin. They have been doing a lot of digging. The badly named...

Agreed - not that I’ve EVER done it either….grrrrrr

Hi Dan Regrettably….work in Cambridge…flatlands with really only Thetford to play in. But lived in Brighton off Preston Drove for 25 years and just miss the Diwns so much. That means we head down as much as we can…..

I noticed a huge thwack doing DH yesterday - a large stone thrown up against the downtube - and it reminded me of times past. I had a Klein, with its hyper thin downtube and only second time out on the South Downs a huge flint came up from the tyre and went ‘clunk’. It didn’t go ‘dink’. So I...

Nic0 those are Big Hills - very nice. Steel on good hills - wonderful.

Cornwall Blue skies Dry ground Crunch crunch goes the granite gravel P E R F E C T

WARNING - NON-RETRO CONTENT Well, up early and clean out rear E4 caliper with toothbrush and brake cleaner. Use small stick with kitchen roll on end as substitute for cotton wool bud to really clean pistons. Final squirt of mucoff cleaner and wipe clean. Pistons pressed back in with a tyre...

Strictly non retro. Arrived Alps Friday eve. Little room on ferry and no room at the inns due to Olympic business. Or busyness. Yesterday serviced Canyon Sender for Grom and polished the Transition Patrol. Managed to find new sintered pads for the Hope E4s after a bit of a panic - in amongst the...

TFG - one pair of the deity bars please? PP? PM me details? Best Tim

Woah - billiard-table tarmac

That last photo is just fabulous. Boy do I miss the South Downs. Work has taken me to the Flatlands and I do wish that I still had decent trails running from my back door.

Partner… What’s that you are building Me A jump bike Partner What’s it for Me Jumping Partner Anything else Me Nope Partner Eye rolling sigh and walks off

Whoooosh The sound of bikes and bits coming in. Brrrrrrt The sound of bikes and bits going out. Whooooosh Whooosh Whoooosh Whoosh Brrt WHooooosh Oops looks like I need more space.

That’s definitely part of it. But I think that mountain bikes have been such an important part of my life for so long that they are a priority in my head and for my personal expenditure. I run a low cost car, don’t drink and have carefully saved all my life - and the savings go on kids (cost...

Lovely colour. Nice save.

In the 1990s I would take maybe 2-3 weeks to make the decision to buy a bike. Marin Palisades.....a few months of measuring, prevaricating, indecision. Marin Rocky Road.....couple of weeks Klein Pinnacle...maybe a month Lots of reading of reviews. Lots of discusson with friends. Grab a...

Some lovely rides documented from everyone this weekend. Us? Strictly non-retro excursion to Bedgebury on Saturday for some fast single track fun. Grom on his new Transition Scout (well…new to him…completely rebuilt 2018 frame and now tight and fast - needed a bit of fettling before it...